This paper reports the annotation of a Brazilian Portuguese Treebank with semantic role labels following Propbank guidelines. A different language and a different parser output impact the task and require some decisions on how to annotate the corpus. Therefore, a new annotation guide – called Propbank-Br has been generated to deal with specific language phenomena and parser problems. In this ph...

Portuguese language is a multiple sounds language. Regarding the different possible accents, Portuguese-speaking way seems to be one of the language’s most relevant characteristics. Radio, as a sound media, is able to represent this diversity. There are several radio shows produced towards the Portuguese culture diaspora. In this paper, we will analyse radio shows produced in Brazil for the Por...

In the late nineties, access to Portuguese data in electronic form was scarce, and was considered one of the bottlenecks limiting the advance of natural language processing of Portuguese (Santos, 1999a), so Linguateca’s launching of AC/DC i had as purpose to significantly increase the amount of data – and its quality, in that the data was annotated and classified. To the best of my knowledge, A...

Current Natural Language Processing tools provide shallow semantics for textual data. These kind of knowledge could be used in the Semantic Web. In this paper, we describe F-EXT-WS, a Portuguese Language Processing Service that is now available at the Web. The first version of this service provides Part-of-Speech Tagging, Noun Phrase Chunking and Named Entity Recognition. All these tools were b...

This study integrates a larger research empirical project that examines second language (SL) learners’ profiles and valid procedures to perform complete and diagnostic assessment in schools. 102 learners of Portuguese as a SL aged 7 and 17 years speakers of distinct home languages were assessed in several linguistic tasks. In this article, we focused on writing performance in the specific task ...

OBJECTIVES to perform the cultural adaptation of the Family Management Measure into the Brazilian Portuguese language. METHOD the method complied with international recommendations for this type of study and was composed of the following steps: translation of the instrument into the Portuguese language; reaching consensus over the translated versions; assessment by an expert committee; back t...

Background: tense marking by deaf signers, in the Brazilian Sign Language and in written Portuguese. Aim: to analyze verbal tense inflection in written Portuguese, to verify the relationship between the performance in using verbal tense inflexion and the educational status, and to verify tense marking in the production of sentences in the Brazilian sign language and in written Portuguese. Metho...

This study uses linguistic output to identify cognitive processes of language learning, i.e. the internalization of specific language components and metalinguistic or metacognitive learning mechanisms. Given that these processes are present in discourse production, they indicate a significant role of speech production in foreign language learning. Furthermore, they serve as predictors of learni...